Spielberg Developing Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon

The late Stanley Kubrick's famous unrealized screenplay centred around Napoleon will get another lease on life, thanks to Steven Spielberg.

"I’ve been developing Stanley Kubrick’s screenplay, for a miniseries not for a motion picture, about the life of Napoleon,” Spielberg told the French TV network Canal+. Kubrick wrote the script in 1961, leaving behind an excessive amount of research on the life of the French political and military icon, as well as numerous correspondences with potential collaborators on the project.

His vision ultimately grew too expensive and was cancelled, despite being well into pre-production. He had originally approached Oskar Werner and Audrey Hepburn to star.

Spielberg and Kubrick collaborated together on A.I. Artificial Intelligence, released in 2001.

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